Photoshop Image Sharpening Tutorial

[John 2]

This is probably the best video tutorial I have come across on the subject. I thought it worth sharing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMun...ature=youtu.be

[IzzieK]

Thanks for the link. I will watch this in the morning light when I wake again.

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks for confirming that the tutorial is effective, John. I bookmarked it so I can refer to it if I ever make a switch to Photoshop as my primary post-processing tool.

[Rita]

Thanks for sharing John. I learned something new watching this.

[Manfred M]

Thanks for posting the link, John. In general it is a very good overview of sharpening and he largely sticks to the approach that Bruce Fraser & Jeff Schewe popularized and is the one that I follow.

It is definitely a very good tutorial on IMPORT SHARPENING. He does not cover in-process sharpening and output sharpening at all and in my view, his comments about in-process sharpening are incorrect. It does not give "over the top results" and it is a technique that portrait photographers often use to subtlety enhance eye lashes, eyebrows, lips, etc.

I'm also not sold on his technique of doing sharpening and noise reduction in the same step. To me, these are two separate operations that really should not be combined. In night photography, I will use noise reduction, but often only in the shadow areas where the noise shows up. All noise reduction causes some image softening (pixel smearing) and I have yet to understand why people reduced noise in areas where there is little to none, and thereby add softening that then has to be counteracted by sharpening, when the original pixels were fine.

[Mike Buckley]

He does not cover in-process sharpening...at all and in my view, his comments about in-process sharpening are incorrect.

Did you mean to write something different?

[Manfred M]

Did you mean to write something different?

No I did not.

He makes one comment about in-process sharpening as he goes over the three types of sharpening briefly at the beginning of the video. He mentions that in-process sharpening results tend to be "over the top" and that is simply not correct.

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks for clarifying!

[pgbs]

Thanks for sharing such a effective tutorial. Worth watching.

[John 2]

You're welcome.